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mute amazement at her mate’s death-struggles. The pasterns of this robust 
and sturdy little animal, which are singularly rigid, have the appearance 
of being encased in Blucher’s, or ancle boots; two other of its most 
remarkable features being the long suborbital slit that traverses the whole 
length of its Roman features, and the pencilled towpet of bright fulvous 
Fig. 22. 
Skull of Cephalophus grimmi. 
(P. Z. S. 1871, p. 591.) 
hair arising from the forehead, neither of which occur in any other 
Antelopes. Writers have noticed three distinct species of the Duiker, 
but the peculiarities in the horns that have led to this division are so 
trivial that I should rather feel disposed to place them to the score of 
age, disease, or accident, few specimens being exactly alike. The animal 
is extremely common in many parts of the Cape Colony, and on the 
